The Norwegian psychometric gathering

Thursday 19 september - Iron Age Farm

11.00–11.15: Welcome

11.15–12.15: Psychometric theory

1) Njål Foldnes, UIS: Improving SEM testing under non-normality

3) Albert Satorra, (UPF/BI): The SEM approach to endogeneity in regression

2)  Lijin Zhang, Stanford University: Mixture modeling for identifying careless responding

12.15–13.00: Lunch

13:00–14.00: Applications 

1) Aleksandra Sevic, UiS:Translation and validation of the Digital Stressors Scale

2) Espen Olsen, UiS: Longitudinal Examination of Bullying and Burnout: Reciprocal Effects Over Time

3) Alberto Danilo Garcia, UiS: A tridimensional model of subjective well-being: IRT, CTT and MIRT

14.00–14.45: Guided tour of the Iron Age Farm 

14.45–15.45: Psychometric Theory:

1) Steffen Grønneberg, BI: A case for conditional expectation assumptions in the structural parts of a SEM

2) Jonas Moss, BI: Inference for general agreement coefficients

3) Øystein Sørensen, UiO: Semiparametric latent variable modeling in R with ‘galamm'

Cancelled: 16.00–16.45:  Yves Roseel, University of Ghent): The structural-after-measurement (SAM) approach to SEM

19.00: Dinner
Brasserie Pigalle, downtown Stavanger

Friday 20 september - Norwegian Reading Centre

10.00–11.00: Psychometric Theory

1) David Kreiberg, BI: The impact of indicator reliability on the Chi-square test for model fit

2) Esther Ulitzsch, CEMO: Likelihood-Free Estimation of IRT Models in Small Samples: A Neural Networks Approach

3) Björn Andersson (UiO, CEMO): Estimating high-dimensional selection models using second-order Laplace approximations

11.15–12.30:  Applications

1) Lu Zhang, CEMO: Benefits of multistage testing in the Norwegian national numeracy tests

2) Marjan Shamsi, UiS: Mixture Modeling in Organizational Psychology: Applications of LPA and LTA

3) Albert Satorra (UPF/BI) - on the use of SEM for dynamic panel data with endogeneity and lagged effects

12.30: Lunch

The program may be subject to change.